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  • 16 Jun 2012 12:52
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    Reply # 974103 on 644008
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    First dry assembly of the keel today, there's still some work to be done to it. Hopefully it will go on in July.
  • 12 Jun 2012 23:06
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    Reply # 963678 on 644008
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    The ballast is now in the shed and along side the boat so I can now start building up the keel. I've sourced 250m x 10mm black polypropylene rope for $99 and it's on it's way, I see a bit of eye splicing in my near future.
  • 30 May 2012 12:49
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    Reply # 936540 on 644008
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    Just a bit of an update.
    The keel bolts have been fitted to the ballast and the bolt holes have been drilled in the keel laminations. I'm sourcing a two pot primer for the ballast and as soon as that has been painted it will be time to build the keel on top of it.
    Rain continues to be a pain in the freckle and the area around the ballast looks like the Somme sans the bullets.
    I think I've solved the fuel line leak but I may have to raise the tank up under the SS cockpit locker, not sure how yet.
  • 16 May 2012 22:32
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    Reply # 922631 on 644008
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    I will be taking my stern rail to the same mob to have it altered so I'll ask them. Getting my keel fitted is the last big job.
  • 16 May 2012 16:49
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    Reply # 922204 on 810533
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    Gary Pick wrote:I took my mild steel mast head crane into an engineering works today to
    get it sent off for galvanising. It seems galvanising is not the way to
    go these days. It's to be sand blasted, epoxied and polyurethane coated
    instead...and if I'm happy with the blue paint they will be using
    tomorrow it will only cost me $50. My answer was no worries, go for it.

    I know this post is from awhile back Gary. But a funny thing happened when we took the steel ballast box for sand blasting and coating. I was planning to coat with zinc paint (like a cold galvanising) and the boss told me that was old hat. For the Gorgon gas platform and Alcoa port facilities they use a polymide coating, DTM985. They pile drive poles with that coating through rock. He showed me a coated pipe and challenged me to scratch it off with my keys. Could only scratch the shiny surface, the rest was rock hard. They just spray it on. Maybe it was the same suff your mast head has.

    So now we have a glossy black keel, inside and out, sitting in our carport. Shame to anti foul it.

    Last modified: 16 May 2012 16:51 | Deleted user
  • 16 May 2012 02:11
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    Reply # 921655 on 644008
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    Drilled the bolt holes in the ballast yesterday, not an easy job. Just have to drill the rebates for the nuts and washers in the bottom and I'm ready to start on fitting the timber keel to it.
  • 02 May 2012 08:56
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    Reply # 908843 on 644008
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    Having been 'in build' for 10 years I can confirm both are true. Mallie is full of them probably in equal proportions. It is part of her character.
  • 02 May 2012 02:52
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    Reply # 908582 on 906990
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    David Tyler wrote:
    Gary Pick wrote:Dragged the mold out of it's muddy pit today. Casting looks good, no real pitting and quite clean.
    Finished the last and most difficult bunk cushion today. It has 200mm half circle in the back edge to fit around the mast. A few mistakes but only I know they are there....shhh.
    The art of being a good boatbuilder is in knowing how to cover up your mistakes. Who else does that apply to? Politicians, doctors...

    Or make them look like an intentional feature.
  • 30 Apr 2012 20:28
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    Gary Pick wrote:Dragged the mold out of it's muddy pit today. Casting looks good, no real pitting and quite clean.
    Finished the last and most difficult bunk cushion today. It has 200mm half circle in the back edge to fit around the mast. A few mistakes but only I know they are there....shhh.
    The art of being a good boatbuilder is in knowing how to cover up your mistakes. Who else does that apply to? Politicians, doctors...
  • 30 Apr 2012 13:03
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    Reply # 906669 on 644008
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    Dragged the mold out of it's muddy pit today. Casting looks good, no real pitting and quite clean.
    Finished the last and most difficult bunk cushion today. It has 200mm half circle in the back edge to fit around the mast. A few mistakes but only I know they are there....shhh.
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